Sixth grade students decided that they were going to make their own radioactive animal after looking at Sandy Skoglund's Radio Active Cats. We made the animals out of paper and tape and then covered them in papier-mâché to give them a colorful finish.

 The papier-mâché provided some challenges but the students had fun getting messy.

 A map covered dinosaur

A Radioactive Rhinoceros

Ancient Greek Vases

4th graders drew their inspiration from ancient Greek vases for this project. They used lots of oil pastel and India ink to start their drawing and then scratched away the surface to show they layers underneath.

Pipes

I am excited to have a new art room next year but there are some things that I will miss about my old room. The old pipes and electrical conduits that dance over the ceiling and the wall add character to my current environment and also provide third graders with a great visual reference for this project. The students used this pipe project to show their expertise at overlapping, hatching, cross-hatching, and stipple dots.

Castle Prints

2nd graders compared and contrasted images of Norman fortresses to images of French chateaus.  The students then used their imagination to create a castle of their own. They printed texture onto the castles with legos, straws, and glue stick lids.

Mixed-Up Chameleons

First graders listened to the story The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle and then they made their own version. Some of the Chameleons are very mixed up and some are happy just to be him or herself. The first graders used crayon rubbings to give their chameleons different colors and textures.